Models of Authorityhttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/2017-04-22T10:16:51+00:00manuSciences 20172017-04-22T10:16:35+00:002017-04-22T10:16:51+00:00Peter Stokeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/manusciences-2017/<p>The deadline is fast approaching to register for manuSciences 2017. This is a Franco-German summer school organised jointly by the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), the Hamburg Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMS), and the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University (PSL). It comprises a series of lectures and courses which 'will focus on a multi-facetted investigation of manuscripts adding new chemical and physical analyses, imaging methods and techniques from computer sciences to classical philology, paleography, codicology, linguistics and history.' Quoting/paraphrasing further from the EPHE version of the website:</p>
<p><strong>What</strong>: A week-long programme on physical sciences and digital methods in manuscript studies and philology. Active participation is expected. The lectures and courses will be in English.<br/><strong>Where</strong>: Villa Clythia, Frejus, France<br/><strong>When</strong>: 10–15 September 2017<br/><strong>Who (participants)</strong>: Up to 40 (max.) young researchers, from master and Ph.D. students to researchers and university lecturers.<br/><strong>Who (lecturers)</strong>: Roger Easton, Leif Glaser, Oliver Hahn (organiser), Keith Knox, Marcus Liwicki, Eve Menei, Ira Rabin (organiser), Hasia Rimon, Uzi Smilansky, Marc Smith, Peter Stokes, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (organiser), Dominique Stutzmann</p>
<p>For more details, including how to register, see <a href="http://humanum.ephe.fr/fr/manusciences17">http://humanum.ephe.fr/fr/manusciences17<br/></a>or <a href="https://www.bam.de/Content/EN/Events/2017/1115-manusciences-17-summer-school.html">https://www.bam.de/Content/EN/Events/2017/1115-manusciences-17-summer-school.html</a>.</p>
<p>[<em>This article has been cross-posted on the <a href="http://www.digipal.eu/blog/manusciences-2017/">DigiPal</a> and <em><a href="http://www.exondomesday.ac.uk/blog/manusciences-2017/">Conqueror's Commissioners</a></em> websites</em>.]</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.bam.de/_SharedDocs/EN/Downloads/Events/va-1115-poster.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3"><img src="https://www.bam.de/_SharedDocs/EN/Downloads/Events/va-1115-poster.pdf;jsessionid=9981FBFAC70D45AC468A693E3616B981?__blob=publicationFile&v=2"/></a></p>John Coffin Memorial Lecture 20172017-04-19T14:48:45+00:002017-04-19T14:53:20+00:00Peter Stokeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/john-coffin-memorial-lecture-2017/<p>I'm very happy to see that this year's John Coffin Memorial Lecture in Palaeography will be given by Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, from the École Pratique des Hautes Études, on 'Crossing Palaeographical Borders: Bi-Alphabetical Hebrew Scribes and Manuscripts in Egypt, Spain and Northern France (11th to 15th Centuries)'. A summary of the talk is reproduced here from <a href="http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/event/8256">the IES website</a>:</p>
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<p>Medieval Jewish scribal culture reflects long-standing post-biblical traditions elaborated by Jewish communities in Palestine, Egypt and Mesopotamia. Moreover, despite major linguistic and scribal differences, Jewish medieval scribes in both East and West were well aware of the palaeographical specificities of the non-Jewish cultures among which they resided. This awareness is apparent in the manuscripts themselves: some contain texts written in different languages and alphabets, others are written in Hebrew script with features echoing the scripts of the majority cultures. Taking as examples manuscripts written in Egypt, Spain and Northern France between the eleventh and the fifteenth centuries, I attempt to uncover some of the mechanisms, technical, aesthetic and social, underlying such scribal cross-cultural encounters. <br/><br/>Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger is the Director of Studies, École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Section des Sciences Historiques et Philogogiques, Sorbonne University, Paris and is a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. She is a highly distinguished scholar, funded by the Rothschild Foundation to research uncatalogued material, and her subject is fundamental to current work on medieval Europe. She heads a pan-European project entitled ‘Books within Books’ (<a href="http://hebrewmanuscript.com">http://hebrewmanuscript.com</a>), that seeks to locate, photograph and describe every Hebrew manuscript to be found in the bindings of books (these are mostly books written in Latin) now in libraries across Europe. She is a leading specialist in the study of Hebrew manuscripts, palaeography and diplomatic, the history of medieval linguistic thought and Christian Hebrew scholars in the Middle Ages.</p>
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<p><strong>What</strong>: 2017 John Coffin Memorial Lecture in Palaeography<br/><strong>Who</strong>: Prof. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (EPHE)<br/><strong>Where</strong>: Chancellor's Hall, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street London WC1E 7HU<br/><strong>When</strong>: 18h-20h, Wednesday 24 May 2017<br/><strong>For more details</strong> (including booking a free place at the talk): <a href="http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/event/8256">http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/event/8256</a></p>
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<p><img src="https://sas.sym-online.com/UserFiles/y2jIiDrUowzJHlr91AZATZfx5l2tc1IhBgD71mktkflxY6iy8nqRkAMBYLkT5p2x/2017%20Palaeography%20Lecture%20Poster.pdf"/></p>
<p>[<em>This blog entry is cross-posted on the <a href="http://www.digipal.eu/blog/john-coffin-memorial-lecture-2017/">DigiPal</a> and <a href="https://www.exondomesday.ac.uk/blog/john-coffin-memorial-lecture-2017/">Conqueror's Commissioners</a> websites.</em>]</p>Models of Authority at DH20162016-07-20T09:28:38+00:002017-03-29T16:02:51+00:00Peter Stokeshttp://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/models-of-authority-at-dh2016/<p>The Models of Authority project was represented at the recent Digital Humanities conference in Krakow, Poland. We presented a poster there and had some very interesting and useful discussions, including the possibility of extending the model to other writing systems, perhaps even Mayan. The poster itself focussed on the work we've been doing to add texts to the palaeographical markup which allows many new searches, visualisations and other ways of accessing the material. The full abstract is now published, and the poster is below. <a href="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2016/dh2016_poster.pdf">The full-resolution poster</a> is also available as a PDF (3.77 MB).</p>
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<li>P.A. Stokes, S. Brookes, G. Noël, J.R. Davies, T. Webber, D. Broun, A. Taylor, and J. Tucker, J. 'The Models of Authority Project: Extending the DigiPal Framework for Script and Decoration', in <em>Digital Humanities 2016: Conference Abstracts</em>, ed. by Maciej Eder and Jan Rybicki (Krakow, 2016), pp. 896-99. Available at <a href="http://dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/387">http://dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/387</a></li>
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<p><a href="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2016/dh2016_poster.pdf" title="Full-resolution PDF of the poster (3.77 MB)"><img alt="Image of DH2016 poster" height="707" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/Blog/2016/.thumbnails/dh2016_poster.jpg/dh2016_poster-500x707.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black;" title="Poster" width="500"/></a></p>
<p class="p1"><i>Models of Authority Poster, DH2016. Click to download full version (3.77 MB)</i></p>